Fiction. Art. Graphic Novel. This is the story of twenty-three Sephardic Jews who fled from Brazil in the advance of an impending Inquisition. Printed and bound as a long accordion-folded comic strip, THE 23 is an historical narrative with two conflicting timelines; the opening pages reveal a futuristic New World in Brazil, but as the story unfolds and progresses through time, the 18th Century slowly devolves into medieval darkness.